Mulvaney outlined how Trump’s legal woes could play out in an opinion piece published in The Hill Wednesday morning.
He described an “outlandish” scenario in which President Joe Biden offers Trump a deal if the former president is convicted. Under that agreement, Biden would pardon Trump in exchange for his dropping out of the presidential race. Biden would then end his 2024 campaign to assure Americans that the deal was not done to make his reelection chances easier.
Mulvaney predicted Trump would ultimately accept that offer. While he said the scenario is not likely to happen, he described how the former president might approach such an offer to avoid serving time in prison.
I don’t care. Trump is a massive threat, yeah, but the entire Republican party is corrupted now. You don’t think the Christofascists and MAGAts will give up just because someone else becomes the nominee, do you? The party has already given in to them throwing tantrums, it’s not going to grow a spine now.
And the problem is that a bunch of people see Trump as a threat, where they wouldn’t see Haley or DeSantis or some of the others as one. Which gives more than enough space for Faux et al to convince people, or even for people to delude themselves.
And we talk about how the younger generation is so liberal, but there’s a whole bunch of men being radicalized by people from Jordan Petersen through to Andrew Tate, and you know that they’re not voting (D).
This is what people are overlooking. This doesn’t die with Trump. Whether the Republican Party metamorphosised or took their mask off, we are now stuck with a blatantly corrupt party in a system where there is only two. There is more than a lot of work to do.